FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND (1981)

FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND (1981)

Tagline: The power is 7,000,000 volts--it's alive!

(Horror, Sci-Fi, Amazon Women) [PG]

The power will start again! The backup brain was hidden years ago, just in case!

Oh man, so in this one, we have some balloonists that land on an island which at first they seem to be okay with, because none of them are freaking out. They run into a village of Amazon women that basically takes them in and can’t dance. Yep, that is what’s going on in this damn thing. Oh, and we also have a dying man who has done all kinds of crazy experiments on some of the Amazon’s and any other dudes that show up on the island. Somehow we also get a Dr. Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s monster in this but don’t worry about that. Can these balloonists not only help free themselves from this crazy island but also maybe take some willing Amazon’s with them?

Anyone watching this needs to be warned, it’s fantastically bad. The production is horrible, the film wastes like 20 minutes of its run time just showing dudes walking around. The Amazon’s are weird and just seem to love skulls and we barely get to see any of what you would expect with a movie of this title. So having said that, if you are just looking for 97 minutes of stupidity, you have come to the right place. This film has everything you could possibly want. 

Acting-wise sadly there is nothing to write home about here. Even if you are a huge John Carradine fan, there just isn’t much to celebrate here. We do get plenty of Robert Clarke and I love his portfolio of film credits. He was in over 170 movies and is known for crazy stuff like THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER, THE MAN FROM PLANET X, and THE NAKED MONSTER, and more. Clarke is okay in this, but it’s really not his fault. Steve Brodie is also okay. He is probably best known for THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS. So it’s not like this cast was completely unknown.  

This script is pretty bad, but the actual outlandish concept is pretty cool out-of-the-box thinking and I gravitate towards crazy stuff like this “idea wise”, but you also have to execute and that just doesn’t happen here. Nothing about this movie is what I would consider good unless you are just looking for a movie for “bad movie night”. Maybe at some point, I will do a similar story as part of DARK 30, but for now, all I can advise is that you skip this thing, even if you are doing a Halloween marathon. 

Overall this movie is a 2 out of 7. It’s very very bad but manages some moments that are so goofy at least you can get a laugh or two out of it. 

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